Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. copyright law. In the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. Even though Benetech doesn’t have donor funding for this, our VP of Global Literacy, Betsy Beaumon, and I thought it would be worthwhile to attend this meeting.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

Last week, TechSoup for Libraries held a webinar called Public Tech Instruction: Teaching the Public on Internet Safety. The presenters, Austin Stroud of the Monroe County Public Library and Crystal Schimpf of TechSoup for Libraries, shared resources for teaching online safety and security. Assessments/Quizzes.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 31, 2016

" The new rule also establishes a National Eligibility Verifier to ensure against waste, fraud, and abuse. Many nonprofits and libraries all across the country are doing great work around digital inclusion. The National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) has organized a prominent U.S.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 31, 2016

" The new rule also establishes a National Eligibility Verifier to ensure against waste, fraud, and abuse. Many nonprofits and libraries all across the country are doing great work around digital inclusion. The National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) has organized a prominent U.S.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

national level. national nonprofit focused on eliminating the digital divide. national nonprofit focused on eliminating the digital divide. information on low-cost computers and digital literacy training brings. under the National School Lunch Program. That’s why we’re excited to give our blog readers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Mark founded InvisiblePeople.tv , a nationally-recognized nonprofit that fights homelessness using the power of social media. His new project is a social media literacy website to help homeless people learn how to use the Internet to tell their stories, build community and connect with support services.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

A national nonprofit, Year UP aims to close the opportunity gap and empower urban talent to reach their potential. Libraries Building Bridges. Public libraries are also working diligently to close both the digital and the opportunity gap: from giving free classes on resume-building to providing free access to technology.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

They will create and promote digital literacy programs. The National Digital Inclusion Alliance. The National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) is a new U.S. The National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) is a new U.S. Every Public Library in the United States. The new NTEN fellows have just started their training.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

Subscribers will also be given access to free digital literacy training. The National Broadband Plan and BTOP. The FCC created a National Broadband Plan in 2009 based on a Congressional mandate. Anyone interested in finding out more on this program can call 1-855-8-INTERNET. A number of U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2011

TechSoup has partnered with goQ Software to make their writing assistance and speech recognition software, WordQ + SpeakQ , available to eligible nonprofits and libraries. The National Commission on writing stated that 80 percent of grade school students are not proficient at writing. roundup on building a culture of accessibility.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2012

More than three-quarters of the nation's public libraries offer e-books, but most Americans don't know that this service is provided by their local library. Librarian Brenda Hough will discuss how library instructors are successfully navigating this sea of change. Want to help people learn how to use e-readers?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

A version of this post originally appeared on the TechSoup for Libraries blog. This raises some interesting questions for how nonprofits and libraries talk about the digital divide and how they advocate for public access technology and technology skills development. What About Nonprofits and Libraries? suggests just that.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2014

Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup Global, released a free mobile app called Range that helps libraries, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and other working with youth locate free meal sites in the summer. The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization just published a report called Reading in the Mobile Era.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 16, 2005

We just hit 20,000 titles on our electronic book library for people with print disabilities. We are delivering more and more books that meet the literacy needs of our users, by providing the latest bestsellers, textbooks and daily newspapers into accessible form. Should be a fun week, and important for moving access to books forward.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

Although the members of our board were impressed with all three nominees, they awarded Carrie Karnos of Palo Alto, CA, the 2006 Veale Award for her work with an accessible online library called Bookshare. Notice that it is because of Carrie's work that almost 10 percent of Bookshare's library exists.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Over the past year, we've been doing TechSoup Impact stories about nonprofits, churches, and libraries doing great work with TechSoup product donations. " Waukesha Public Library. An increasing number of public libraries are discovering TechSoup donations, but few are maxing them out like Waukesha Public Library in Wisconsin.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

For nonprofits, libraries, and their constituents, education is essential to keep knowledge and skills up to date. The National Commission on writing stated that 80 percent of grade school students are not proficient at writing. Hear what other nonprofits and libraries are saying in our Community Forums. September's here.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

It's been almost three years since Edward Snowden's revelations about the National Security Agency's (NSA) surveillance of American's online and phone communications and records. " If you do any sort of digital literacy work or job training, privacy and online security is likely already a big part of your curriculum.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Symantec gives a lot back to the nonprofit and library community through their donation program here at TechSoup — See what organizations like yours are saying about their donated Symantec products. Symantec has made corporate grants to the National Center for Women & Information Technology and Vital Voices.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

We were close to next month's launch of the NIMAC, this new national textbook repository, a process which has taken two years since the passage of the updated Individuals with Disabilities Education Act by Congress in November 2004. Perhaps it's because I work in the fields of disability, literacy and human rights.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 1, 2016

It's been almost three years since Edward Snowden's revelations about the National Security Agency's (NSA) surveillance of American's online and phone communications and records. " If you do any sort of digital literacy work or job training, privacy and online security is likely already a big part of your curriculum.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Reading challenge Issue a community-wide reading challenge this spring to encourage literacy in your community. Encourage participants to take advantage of your local public library and get reading! Volunteer-a-thon for volunteer week National Volunteer Week is the perfect time for an April fundraiser that focuses on volunteering.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

But with so many charities and libraries working with children, the weird new security threat in 2016 will be smart toys. I'm thrilled at the forward motion groups like the National Digital Inclusion Alliance and others have supported this year and think that 2016 is looking like a momentous time when it comes to policy change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

For the past five years, the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati has honored Harriet Beecher Stowe's birthday by asking a writer to give the annual Harriet Beecher Stowe Lecture about, "Writing to Change the World." She also won the 2005 National Magazine Award for Reporting for her article, " Dying in Darfur ," in The New Yorker.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . The Lisa Libraries. They focus funding on organizations that work on financial literacy for elementary and high school students (established programs only). Guitar Center.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact. But what about everybody else?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

The Saskatoon Public Library opened its doors to these evacuees, and staff members stepped up their efforts to help the evacuees communicate with their family and friends. Staffers also let people from outside of Saskatoon check out books from the library and access other services. Educating the Public on Disaster Preparedness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

What do libraries look like in the future? National Science Foundation. Emphasis is on digital literacy. How do those learning environments impact institutions? The power of games have caused to rethink many things. How to begin to have conversations to understand it. New set of research methods for this. Two years ago.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The basic idea is that there is a set of skills that need to be emphasized for kids today to be good citizens, workers, and leaders in the 21st century--skills like collaboration, global awareness, and media literacy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. By this, I am not just talking about the publishing business, but also the nonprofit libraries committed to universal accessibility.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Last month, I gave the closing keynote at the National Digital Forum in New Zealand. There is a preponderance of reports about the value of new media literacies towards educating productive citizens of the 21st century. For this reason, I spoke specifically about how to make dream projects possible at real institutions.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This was part of the national conversation when schools pivoted to online classrooms, which catered to families with reliable internet, ample supply of modern devices, and space to use them. CVAs lament how technology gaps can exclude some people in systematic ways. During the pandemic-induced quarantines, these gaps widened.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

The marriage of refurbishment and accessible technology started in the early 1980s with the founding of the National Cristina Foundation. It supplies computers to disabled people of all ages through its technology lending library and it also supplies for special-needs classrooms. national web site for Assistive Technology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Bookshare Hits 100,000 Members Boy reading at a computer with teacher in the background.Since the beginning of 2009, we’ve tripled the number of people with disabilities Bookshare is serving with our accessible library of ebooks. Literacy, human rights and the environment are critically important to the future of humanity.

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